Re: Mail Software Terminology

["Parks, Beverly" <ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL>]

>From:  Janice Gelb[SMTP:janiceg -at- MARVIN -dot- ENG -dot- SUN -dot- COM]
>>
>Our group just started editing documentation dealing with
>mail server software and we're trying to find out if there
>is any industry standard (foolish, aren't we?) for the term
>"inbox," meaning the primary mailbox in which the network
>user receives mail. We've seen it both upper- and lowercase,
>hyphenated and set solid, from our various writers, and it's
>not used in the GUI so that's no help.
>
>The arguments from the editors on each side of the style
>issue are:
>
>* Capitalize it because it's a specific type of mailbox, and
>each user only has one
>
>* Lowercase it because it is just a generic type of "mailbox"
<<
>
Well, the help files in MS Exchange use "Inbox". Of course, that doesn't
make it right. <g>  I don't see a *real* reason to capitalize it. Sure,
it's a specific type of mailbox; but saguaro is a specific type of
cactus and it's not capitalized. And, sure, each user may only have one,
but each user also has only one bellybutton, and it's not capitalized.

>Bev Parks
>parksb -at- emh1 -dot- hqisec -dot- army -dot- mil
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